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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This series of three segments features an interview with Anthrotronix Founder and CIO, Jack Vice. These segments were shot at a robotics convention under very noisy conditions, and so cameraman Paul Donahue asked Jack and I to stand very close together so that the mike would pick up our voices over the background noise.

Jack tells us that Anthrotronix uses GNU Linux to offer products and services to the US Department of Defense and, ironically, to therapists for children with physical and emotional disabilities. The common link? Lack of a keyboard!! It turns out that both soldiers in the field and children with physical or emotional disabilities are not in a position to successfully use a keyboard to tell the computer what to do, so Anthrotronix need to give them a way to interact with the computer with more simple gestures. We don'\''t see any of the military applications here, just applications for children. The first two segments feature interviews with Jack, and the last segment features b-roll footage of the children interacting a bit with the robot.

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